Penguins History
Crosby Passes Jagr but Who's Better?
January 27th, 2018 Sidney Crosby tallied three points in a 6-3 Pittsburgh Penguins win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night to overtake the one and only Jaromir Jagr on the Penguins' all-time points list. With 1082 points and counting, Crosby sits solely as the 2nd leading scorer in...
Five Most Important Players in Penguins History
January 27th, 2018 Since their NHL inception in 1967, the Pittsburgh Penguins have seen many hockey heroes of past and present don the fabled black and gold. From the rise, to the the ashes of the Igloo, and onward to the PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh has proven itself a hockey city through...
The Enforcer Awakens: A Pittsburgh Penguins Story
January 23rd, 2018 A long time ago, in a hockey galaxy far far away, there lived a humble yet hardy horde of trash-talking, melee-loving misfits who existed only to defend their leaders against the many evils of an icy empire. Their hands were hardened, their bodies bruised, and their smug...
Remembering What Made Mario Lemieux Greatest
January 13th, 2018 Equal parts exhilarating and devastating, sports are quite simply unpredictable. Ask the city of Pittsburgh. This week 25 years ago, Penguins fans experienced both emotions at the same time. Riding back-to-back Stanley Cup championships and looking like a team destined to...Penguins 1992-93 Win Streak One for the Record Books
January 8th, 2018 It didn't seem like a big deal at the time. A 3-2 win by the Pittsburgh Penguins over the visiting Boston Bruins at The Igloo on Mar. 9, 1993, stopped a two-game losing streak. Joe Mullen's second goal of the game 25 seconds into the third period proved to be the...
A Pittsburgh Penguins Scoring Flurry 45 Years Later
November 23rd, 2017 With players such as Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, the Pittsburgh Penguins certainly have had an explosive offense in their history. But during a game in 1972, the Penguins enjoyed a record-setting scoring outburst. In the third period of...
Notable Penguins Injuries Over the Years
August 3rd, 2017 Whether it has been due to the sheer number of games the Pittsburgh Penguins have contested in the previous seasons, or by some other force of nature, the team has made as many headlines for the injuries they have sustained as the success they have achieved. At the...
Sid of 1,000 - Master Crosby
February 17th, 2017 Sidney Crosby's latest in a long line of achievements victimized the Winnipeg Jets last night. Facing away from the net and fighting through the left wing, Crosby relentlessly shrugged off a hounding Blake Wheeler. Gaining the puck, he immediately fed a pass into the slot...
Top 5 Scorers in Penguins History
February 16th, 2017 Sidney Crosby will enter Thursday night's game with 999 career points. If he plays anywhere close to the level he brought to Tuesday's contest, he will join the 1,000-point club versus the Winnipeg Jets. When he does reach the milestone, Crosby will become the 86th (just...
Kasparaitis Talks Islanders, Rangers & Life After Hockey
November 15th, 2016 Not many hockey players were as polarizing during their NHL career as Darius Kasparaitis. http://gty.im/103267944 A master of the hip-check, Kasparaitis was drafted by the New York Islanders fifth overall in the 1992 entry draft and just a season later, was known...Top 10 Memorable Games of the Crosby Era
July 20th, 2016 After most emotions have calmed down and championship hangovers have finally passed, how are you dealing with the withdrawal symptoms creeping in? Let me help you — and myself — over the hump. Here are the 10 most memorable games since the day Sidney Crosby first took...
Pens on the Brink of Something Special
June 7th, 2016 Doc Emrick will remember this date quite well: October 13, 1960. The last time a professional championship was won within the Pittsburgh city limits by one of its three remaining pro sports teams. Here is a bit of a history lesson before the hockey talk. The...
Mark Recchi - Hockey Hall of Fame Debate
December 16th, 2015 In this series, we debate the merits of players who may have been overlooked for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame using the Hall’s criteria of judging a player based on their “playing ability, sportsmanship, character and contributions to his or her team or teams...
